18 May is the first day of Tbilisi International Festival of Literature!

at 09:30 we start a long poetry night in the garden of Writers' House, don't forget to attend!

All guests of the festival and Georgian poets will read their poetry!

Be prepared to listen to:

Carolyn Forche, USA

Kimberly Johnson, USA

Raoul Schrott, Austria

Vera Pavlova, USA

Serhiy Jadan, Ukraine

Claudio Pozzani, Italy

Austrian writer, poet, literary critic, translator and broadcast personality talks with the director of Georgian Literature Museum, historian and linguist Lasha Bakradze about Hesiod's "Theogony" and Homer's "Iliad" - the oldest texts, their source and contexts.

Raoul Schrott attended the universities of Norwich, Paris, Berlin and Innsbruck. He completed a thesis on "Dada 1921 – 1922 in Tirol". He translated Homer's writings into colloquial German. In 2008 he was appointed Visiting professor by the Free University Berlin.

The meeting will take place in ლიტერატურის მუზეუმი Literature Museum​, address: 8, Gia Chanturia str. 8

Language: German with Georgian translation.

Raoul Schrott's participation in Tbilisi Literature Festival is supported by Goethe Institute in Georgia.

VERA PAVLOVA, American poet of Russian origin will be presenting her poetry at the second day of Tbilisi Internatioal Festival of Literature at the Caucasian House on 19 May, 18:00. The evening will be chaired by poet Shota Iatashvili.

Address: 20, Galaktioni str.

Vera Pavlova was born in 1963, in Moscow, Russia. She began writing poetry at the age of twenty, after the birth of her first daughter.. She first published her poems at the age of twenty-four, in the literary monthly “Yunost’” (“Youth”). Pavlova became a celebrity after no fewer than seventy-two poems of hers were published in a two-page centerfold of the “Segodnia” (“Today”) daily, a unique event in the annals of Russian literature, giving rise to the rumor that she was a literary hoax. Since then, her works have appeared in many newspapers and in most of the major magazines in Russia.
To date, Pavlova has published eighteen collections of poetry in Russian, of which “Vezdes’” (“Here and Every”), 2003, “Ruchnaya Klad’” (“Hand-Carried Luggage”), 2006, and “Pis’ma v sosedneyu komnatu” (“Letters to the Room Next Door”), 2006, were voted The Best Book of the Year. The latter of these collections is a unique project in book printing: it consists of 1001 poems written out in Pavlova’s hand and illustrated with drawings done by her daughter when the girl was four years old.
As of now, Pavlova’s poems have been translated into twenty-two languages. She has participated in international poetry festivals in Azerbaijan, Belgium, Germany, Greece, France, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States, Armenia and Uzbekistan. She has held poetry readings at a number of American schools, including Columbia University, University of Illinois at Urbana, Dartmouth College, Ohio State University, Virginia Tech, Harvard University, North-Western University, Wesleyan University, Dickinson College, Princeton University, University of Alaska (Anchorage), Boston College, and at some other schools in the United States and abroad.

Young Polish author Mikołaj Łoziński talks about his work and his new novel "The Book" 

Mikołaj Łoziński, born 1980 in Warsaw; studied sociology at Sorbonne University; author of fiction, translated into many languages. His works include “Reisefieber” (2006), “The Book” (2011) and short stories for children “Fairytales for Ida”. Awarded with Koscielski Foundation Award (2007), Passport of Polityka (2011), and Jānis Baltvilks International Prize in Children's Literature (2013). He lives in Warsaw with his wife and two children.

Sarah Bower is a prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, THE NEEDLE IN THE BLOOD, won the Susan Hill Award in 2007. Her second, THE BOOK OF LOVE (published in the US as SINS OF THE HOUSE OF BORGIA) was translated into nine languages and was a Toronto Globe and Mail bestseller in 2009. Her third novel, EROSION, writing as S. A. Hemmings, came out in 2014. Her short fiction and non-fiction has appeared in a number of publications including MsLexia, Words Without Borders and Asian Cha and has been broadcast on BBC Radio.

Anthea Nicholson began writing fiction later in life, coming the profession of a visual artist. She took an MA in creative writing at Bath Spa University, 2005, and was then writer in residence for a year on a Dartmoor sheep farm. Further distractions included building a dwelling and reclaiming wildlife habitat on the outskirts of Tbilisi with her Georgian partner. She is also based in Bristol, England and lives somewhat haphazardly between the two places. 

The Banner of the Passing Clouds, pub. Granta Books, 2013, is Anthea Nicholson's debut novel. She is currently working on the next one.

Sarah Bower's creative writing workshop with Students of Free University 
Language : English

Sarah Bower is a prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, THE NEEDLE IN THE BLOOD, won the Susan Hill Award in 2007. Her second, THE BOOK OF LOVE (published in the US as SINS OF THE HOUSE OF BORGIA) was translated into nine languages and was a Toronto Globe and Mail bestseller in 2009. Her third novel, EROSION, writing as S. A. Hemmings, came out in 2014. Her short fiction and non-fiction has appeared in a number of publications including MsLexia, Words Without Borders and Asian Cha and has been broadcast on BBC Radio.

Austrian poet and writer Raoul Schrott meets the German-speaking public in Goethe-Institut Georgien. Translation of his poetry in Georgian will be read by translator Maia Liparteliani.

Language: German

Claudio Pozzani - 20 th of May, meeting with readers and presentations of the books "The March of the Shadows" and "Georgian anthology of contemporary poetry in Italian language" presents translator - Nunu Geladze

Claudio Pozzani was born in 1961 in Genoa, Italy.
Poet, narrator and musician, he is appreciated in Italy and abroad for his poetic performances in the most important international literary festivals.
His poems have been translated and published into more than 10 countries.
Since 1995 Pozzani is the director of the Genoa International Poetry Festival in Italy and he has created and organized several poetry events in Europe and Asia.
He is also the director of the "Stanza della Poesia" in Genoa, with over than 120 free events every year.

With the support of Lithuanian Writers' Union and the International Poetry Festival "Lithuanian Spring", 6 Lithuanian poets will participate in Tbilisi International Festival of Literature. The poets Gytis Norvilas, Antanas A. Jonynas, Liutauras Degėsys, Viktoras Rudžianskas, Mindaugas Valiukas and Violeta Shoblinskaite will read their poetry.